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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What word is used to describe Salvatore's body after marrying?
(a) Husky.
(b) Frail.
(c) Flabby.
(d) Thin.

2. How does Salvatore feel toward his ex-fiance after learning they will not marry?
(a) He hates her.
(b) He feels betrayed.
(c) He understands why she cannot marry him.
(d) He feels honored to have had her love at all.

3. What was Assunta able to purchase for Salvatore if they married?
(a) A boat and a home.
(b) A gold watch.
(c) A new suit.
(d) A horse and buggy.

4. How did Salvatore's family learn his fiancé was not going to marry him before he did?
(a) Her new husband told them.
(b) Her father told them.
(c) Her mother told them.
(d) She told them.

5. Why does Salvatore's fiancé say she can no longer marry him?
(a) She is moving far away.
(b) She has married somebody else.
(c) He will never be able to work.
(d) She has fallen in love with someone else.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Salvatore tell his mother about Assunta?

2. Why did Assunta not marry the man to whom she had been engaged?

3. What does Salvatore's mother tell him about a woman named Assunta a few months after he returned from military service?

4. What rare quality does the narrator say he was trying to paint a portrait of in his story "Salvatore"?

5. What work does Salvatore do when he settles home after returning from military service?

Short Essay Questions

1. How did Salvatore's family learn he was not going to marry the girl he loved?

2. What did Salvatore do for work after he and Assunta married?

3. Though Salvatore found Assunta physically unattractive, what could she offer him if they married?

4. What would Salvatore do if his rheumatism became too bad for him to work?

5. Why does Salvatore understand that the girl he loves will not marry him?

6. What does the narrator say he set out to do in the story?

7. What happened to Assunta's fiancé?

8. How is Assunta described after she and Salvatore marry? What does she look like? What type of person is she?

9. What did Salvatore's fiancé tell him "with the blunt directness of her race" (5) when he went to see her at her home after he returned rom military service?

10. Describe Salvatore washing his babies near the end of the story?

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